Creating custom email templates allows you to maintain brand uniformity while personalizing your messages. You can learn how to create email templates for a channel here.

For an advance sample of a email template, please see code example below.

<messaging:emailTemplate 
subject="Your Itinerary Ref: {!relatedTo.KaptioTravel__VersionNumber__c} from {!$Setup.KaptioTravel__AppSettings__c.KaptioTravel__CompanyName__c}" 
recipientType="Contact" 
relatedToType="KaptioTravel__Itinerary__c">
    <messaging:HTMLEmailBody >
        <body>
            <p>Dear {!relatedTo.KaptioTravel__Name_on_booking__c},</p>
            
            <p>Thank you for taking me through your travel plans. You have a wonderful trip ahead of you.</p>
            
            <p>Your proposed itinerary shows how your ideas could take shape. 
               I’ve created it uniquely for you to bring together everything we talked about and capture your interests, while keeping your budget in mind. 
               I explain all the choices I’ve made for you in my introduction at the start of the itinerary.
            </p>
            
            <p>To view your itinerary, just click on the link below.</p> 
            
            <p>
                <ul><li><a href="{!relatedTo.KaptioTravel__LastPublishedUrl__c}">View my itinerary</a></li></ul>
            </p>          
            <p>
                The cost for this trip is
                <apex:outputText value="{0, number, £#,###,##0.00}" rendered="{!relatedTo.currencyIsoCode == 'GBP'}">
                    <apex:param value="{!relatedTo.KaptioTravel__Amount_Per_Person__c}"/>
                </apex:outputText>
                <apex:outputText value="{0, number, €#,###,##0.00}" rendered="{!relatedTo.currencyIsoCode == 'EUR'}">
                    <apex:param value="{!relatedTo.KaptioTravel__Amount_Per_Person__c}"/>
                </apex:outputText>
                <apex:outputText value="{0, number, $#,###,##0.00}" rendered="{!relatedTo.currencyIsoCode == 'USD'}">
                    <apex:param value="{!relatedTo.KaptioTravel__Amount_Per_Person__c}"/>
                </apex:outputText>
                <apex:outputText value="{0, number, CAD#,###,##0.00}" rendered="{!relatedTo.currencyIsoCode == 'CAD'}">
                    <apex:param value="{!relatedTo.KaptioTravel__Amount_Per_Person__c}"/>
                </apex:outputText>
                per person (excluding any upgrades).
            </p>
            
            <p>I’ll remain your consistent point of contact before and during your trip, 
               to be on hand to answer your questions and make sure everything runs smoothly until the time you’re back home.
            </p>
            
            <p>
                I hope you enjoy reading through the itinerary, and I look forward to speaking with you again soon.
            </p>
            
            <p>
                Yours,
								{!relatedto.Owner.FirstName} {!relatedto.Owner.LastName}
            </p>
        

        </body>
    </messaging:HTMLEmailBody>
</messaging:emailTemplate>

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